OSMAN ÇELİK

Chairman of the Board

Deputy Minister Osman Çelik was born in Kemaliye, Erzincan in 1964. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from the Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He worked as an economist in the State Institute of Statistics in 1986 and 1987, before joining Faisal Finans Kurumu in 1988, where he served as a Specialist and Chief Specialist in the Project Evaluation and Preparation Department until 1995. He was the Project and Marketing Manager at İhlas Finans Kurumu from 1995 through 1999.

Between 2000 and 2005, he served as Assistant General Manager of Anadolu Finans Kurumu. From 2006 to 2015, he held the positions of Assistant General Manager for Credits and Assistant General Manager for Commercial Banking, respectively, at Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası. As of June 2015, he assumed the position of General Manager of Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankası.

Mr. Çelik was appointed as the Undersecretary of the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Treasury and Finance on 29 June 2016. During his tenure as Undersecretary, he served as a Member of the Executive Board of the Islamic Development Bank and also acted as Türkiye’s G20 Sherpa. During the same period, he also held positions as a Governor in the World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Asian Development Bank, Black Sea Trade and Development Bank, Ecobank, and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. In tandem, he served as a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), Financial Stability Committee, Coordination Board for Interest-Free Financing, and the Executive Board of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization (KOSGEB).

Between 2017 and 2021, Çelik held the positions of Chairman of the Board, Board Member, and Chairman of the Audit Committee at Türk Eximbank. Starting from October 2018, he served as a Board Member and Chairman of the Credit Committee at Vakıf Katılım Bankası A.Ş. As of 25 March 2022, he was appointed as the General Manager of Vakıf Katılım Bankası.

On 21 June 2023, Mr. Osman Çelik has been appointed as the Deputy Minister of Treasury and Finance. Additionally, he has been serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Türk Eximbank as of July 2023.

ÖZGÜR VOLKAN AĞAR

Vice Chairman of the Board

Özgür Volkan AĞAR was born in Ankara in 1972 and completed his primary and secondary education in the same city. He graduated from the Department of Public Administration at Ankara University's Faculty of Political Sciences in 1994. He received his master’s degree in public administration from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.

In January 1996, he started his career as an Assistant Foreign Trade Specialist at the General Directorate of Import of T.R. Prime Ministry's Undersecretariat for Foreign Trade. From 1999, he worked as Foreign Trade Specialist at the General Directorate of Import. In 2005, he became a Branch Manager at the General Directorate of Export. From 2007 to 2009, he held the position of Commercial Attaché at the Consulate General of Georgia in Batumi. In 2009, he assumed the role of Department Head in the General Directorate of Export.

After serving as the Deputy Director General of the Export General Directorate at the Ministry of Economy from 2010, he held the position of Director General of the Export General Directorate at the Ministry of Trade for six years starting from January 2016. Finally, on 17 March 2022, he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Trade at the Ministry of Trade.

As of July 2023, Özgür Volkan Ağar is a member of the Board of Directors at Türk Eximbank and has been serving as the Vice Chairman since the same date.

ALİ GÜNEY

Member of the Board and General Manager

Rize, 1964. Mr. Güney graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He worked in the Fund Management Department of Faisal Finance between 1990 and 1993. He assumed the duty of Assistant Manager in the Fund Management and Treasury Department of İhlas Finance from 1995 until 1999, when he joined Anadolu Finance as Fund Management and Treasury Manager, which position he held until 2005. Mr. Güney functioned as Treasury Manager at Türkiye Finans Participation Bank between 2006 and 2009 and as Deputy General Manager responsible for Treasury and Financial Institutions between 2009 and 2015. He was Deputy General Manager responsible for Treasury and Strategy at Vakıf Participation Bank from 2015 until 2019.

Mr. Güney has been serving as Member of the Board and General Manager of Türk Eximbank since 17 October 2019.

NAİL OLPAK

Member of the Board and Audit Committee Member

Nail Olpak was born in Burdur in 1961. He graduated from İstanbul Technical University, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and received his master's degree in energy from Yıldız Technical University. Having started his business life at Umar Makina A.Ş., he worked as Assistant Plant Manager at Özgün A.Ş., and as Vice Chairman at Cankurtaran Holding during the various stages of his career. Having founded NORA Elektrik Malzemeleri A.Ş. and PAK YATIRIM İnşaat A.Ş., Olpak currently holds the chairman seats on the boards of both companies, and member seats on the boards of the companies in which these companies hold shares.

Nail Olpak served as the 5th term Chairman of MUSIAD (Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association) and Chairman of the High Advisory Board of MUSIAD, Vice Chairman of IBF (International Business Forum), Executive Board Member of B20 Türkiye, Assembly Member of ITO (İstanbul Chamber of Commerce), Board Member of IDTM (Istanbul World Trade Center), Board Member of Huzur Hospital Foundation, Board Member of ENVERDER (Energy Efficiency Association) and Muallimköy Teknoloji Bölgesi (Informatics Valley), Board Member and High Advisory Board Member of MMG (Architects and Engineers Group), Founding Committee Member of Turkish-Japanese University, Member of the Board of Trustees of Information Commercialization Center (BTM), and Advisory Board Member of ITU Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

Olpak currently continues to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee at Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK), Board Member at Türk Eximbank, Turkcell and İstanbul Development Agency, Member of the Coordination Board for the Improvement of the Investment Environment (YOIKK), Chairman at World Turkish Business Council (DTİK), Member of the High Advisory Board at Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (MUSIAD), Founders Board Member at International Technological Economic and Social Research Foundation (UTESAV) and at Spreading Knowledge Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees at Tourism Development and Education Foundation (TUGEV), Huzur Hospital Foundation, Human Development and Social Education Foundation (IGETEV), İstanbul Medeniyet University Support Foundation, Kandilli Club Foundation, and Member of the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB), Architects and Engineers Group (MMB), Mimar Sinan Engineers Union (MSMB), and Aydın High School Alumni Association (ALMED).

Nail Olpak was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in International Relations by Ahi Evran University and Mehmet Akif Ersoy University. He speaks English fluently. Nail Olpak has been a member of the Board of Directors at Türk Eximbank since 26 April 2018 and an Audit Committee member since 13 May 2019.

MUSTAFA GÜLTEPE

Member of the Board / Member of the Audit Committee

Mustafa Gültepe was born in 1968 in Tonya-Trabzon. He graduated from Dokuz Eylül University Industrial Engineering Department in 1990. Gültepe completed his MBA master’s degree at Istanbul University in 1997 and got into the sector at Taha Tekstil in 1992 after graduation. He is the founding partner and chairman of the board of Talu Tekstil, which was incorporated in 1994 as a subsidiary of Taha Group. Gültepe has been in the POST-to-wear garment industry for 30 years. He owns production facilities in Istanbul, Sakarya and Malatya, and employs approximately 4,000 people.

Between 2017-2021, he served as the Chairman of the Board of Sakarya 1st Organized Industrial Zone.

Gültepe has been on the Board of Directors of the Istanbul Apparel Exporters’ Association (IHKIB) since 2010; he served as the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors between 2014-2018, and in the elections held in April 2018, he became the Chairman of the Board of Directors of İHKİB and still continues this duty. Gültepe was elected as the Chairman of the Turkish Exporters Assembly on 13 June 2022.

Mustafa Gültepe, who also serves as the Vice Chairman of DEİK and İhracatı Geliştirme A.Ş., is married, has three children, and speaks English.

Gültepe has been a Member of the Türk Eximbank’s Board of Directors since 17 October 2022.

FAHRİYE ALEV ARKAN

Member of the Board

Fahriye Alev Arkan was born in Trabzon in 1952. Ms. Arkan graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law and completed her law internship in 1976. She started her career that same year at the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources and served as Consultant Lawyer at the SSI General Directorate. Ms. Arkan joined the State Investment Bank in 1987 and was involved in the restructuring of the State Investment Bank as Türk Eximbank. She has assumed positions as Specialist, Manager, Legal Advisor and Department Head at Türk Eximbank and served as Deputy General Manager of Insurance and Guarantee Operations between 2 March 1998 and 19 March 2012.

Ms. Arkan has been a Türk Eximbank Board Member since 10 May 2019.

DİDEM BAHAR ÖZGÜN YILMAZ

Member of the Board and Audit Committee Member

Didem Bahar Özgün Yılmaz was born in Ankara in 1973. She graduated from the Department of Statistics at the Middle East Technical University in 1995 and completed her master's degree in economics at the University of Michigan (USA) between 2000 and 2002.

She started her career as an Assistant Specialist at the Undersecretariat of the Treasury of Prime Ministry in 1996. Between 2004 and 2007, she served as a Branch Head at the Undersecretariat of Treasury, Directorate General of Economic Research, where she functioned as a Department Head between 2007 and 2013, and Assistant General Manager between 2013 and 2018.

Having worked as Department Head, Assistant Director General and Deputy Director General at the General Directorate of Economic Programs and Research of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance from 2019 to 2023, Yılmaz has been appointed as Director General of the General Directorate of Economic Programs and Research in October 2023.

Yılmaz has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Türk Eximbank since 21 July 2023 and a member of the Audit Committee since 28 July 2023.